October 3, 2025 • 37 mins
Top Story of the Day on the Dodgers. LA Times UCLA Beat Writer Ben Bolch on the growing numbe of boosters who are not happy at UCLA. Matt with his Week 5 NFL Picks.
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Speaker 2 (02:42):
Hop story of it.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Well, Pee, your top story begins with this losses yesterday.
Stars have to be stars. Do not ignore history. Look
at the elimination games and why Boston and San Diego.
I'm going to ignore Cleveland are going home Boston narrative.
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You know, I'll be honest, I just don't really know.
I was like, I don't know if is this guy star?
I don't know is that guy that was my problem?
Whereas just kind of looking through the Cubs, the Red Sox,
the Yankees and the Padres Roush, I'm like, way, I
know these guys. H Boston won for eleven effort from
Duran story and Bregman uh uh chyres dies I got again.
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And that's the only reason I know that he's a
star because of our former intern Gabby, who was very
disappointed in his effort against a very disappointed Meanwhile, Yankees
super Rooky Cam Schlittler was as advertised. His final regular
season started, he struck out nine, he allowed to hits
over seven and in this one, my goodness, eight innings,
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twelve strikeouts, zero walks. First time in Major League base
Ball playoff history a rookie has put up those numbers. Ever. Meanwhile,
in the series, Aaron Judge hit three sixty four, Volpi
hit three sixty four, and the Yankees broke the winless
streak since this wild Card format was introduced. Teams winning
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Game one were fifteen and zero going into their final
contest of the evening, and yet they ended up getting out.
They will head to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays.
For the Cubs, Kyle Tucker hit two seventy three, Pete
crow Armstrong hit three hundred. Michael Busch, former Dodger They're
All Star, hit four hundred, and we did find out
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courtesy of Clyle. She sent me the note. Michael Bush
traded for Jackson Ferris and Zayer Hope, so two promising
minor leaguers for the All Star first baseman that was
blocked by Freddie Freeman. Here in Los Angeles. He hit
four hundred with a dogger and Dansby Swanson was out
there making every other short stop in the big leagues
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look like they should quit. Compared to what he was
doing in the field. Why are the Padres going home?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Because Tatisa Machado suck ass? Pure ass. Wow, that is
very harsh. Yes, Fernando Tatis one pure class. You say,
pure ass. He hit zero eight three, zero eighty three
in the wild card round, four strikeouts. Machado had the
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one big homer in a game to win, and everyone
was getting all over the Cubs skipper Craig Council like
why would you pitch to him? And it's like, well,
that was his only hit in the entire series. He
was one for ten. He did not have a hit
up to that point. I guess that's why we pitched
to him. Did he make him pay?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
But Machado, for all of his chirpin and all of
his chest puffin one for ten with three strikeouts. Luisa
Rise who was one.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Least Machado was Graycia.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know, after it was all said and done, you know,
he kind of took the blame on himself. He did
kind of like James Franklin, you know, after losing to Oregon,
he was, uh, he handled himself well.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
And most defended.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But how do you assess the season like this?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I mean, I mean, what type of question is that, dude,
my guy, how do I assess the season we just lost?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
How do you think I assessed the sea? How do
you think I assess it?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I was asking you, tell me, what's a loss we lost?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
How do you assess it? It's a loss You're lost?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Come on, dude, I mean you could ask better questions
than that.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Let's go, come on, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You know, wait to the last second.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I asked that.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Sure, let me let me try this one, machado. How
much of it do you blame on yourself? One for
ten one for the team was zero for eight with
runners in scoring position. Luisa Rise won the batting title.
And the child's a big guy, very intimidated. I would
imagine if you're a someone like me, a little neatly
necked reporter with the microphone in his face, and he's
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kind of staring you.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Down, going toe to toe with him. Though last year,
remember it was a year ago to the day.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, I was in Boise or something or something.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Right from the dugout there Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, I don't know if I had the can of
turtle wax or the rag that was waxing his balls.
I can't remember. That's that's how I went toe to
toe with him. Kates here is the nicest guy gets
a bad rough What do you think?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, sounds good to me, Dave.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Uh did we all walk away from that going yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It really isn't? Actually nice guy, it was. It was great,
super nice to us. Put his arm around. Dave had
a big smile on his face, but he had a
bad series. Uh Luis Rayes, like I said, won the
battle like batting title. I think three times two for eleven.
Uh so, yeah, it was a disastrous called strike three
in the top of the ninth with Jackson merrill Avage
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just hit a homer to cut the lead to three
one a runner on first, nobody out. But that ain't
why you lost. That is not why you're going home again.
Zero for eight with runners in scoring position is why
you're going home. So for the team to show no
class and start screaming at the umpires as they're walking
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off the field, and by the way, umpires just keep walking, man,
don't engage as we're watching.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Maybe that was like the uh maybe that was like
the alternate guy that that that we got in love right,
you know what I mean, like the guy who'd never
made it out there, and then the security had to
say that was that was fair?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That was Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I haven't seen so much anger since those waymos got
lit on fire downtown a while back.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
That's what it was like. It was like a flaming weymo. Uh,
they could have got a hit. Maybe you don't need
a ninth inning rally to win a game after doing
nothing in the previous eight and uh, the last time
I checked, there were two on and one out for Croninworth,
who grounded out, and then runners on second and third
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in scoring position with the best hitter in the series
for the Padres, Freddie Furman in the box set up
for a rally and he popped out the center. So
still opportunities there to overcome. But as we have detailed
on the show, mostly courtesy of David Vasse, the Padres
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are far too emotional of a bunch, and things like
that really get into their head. Game over, series over,
season over, and in a Fred Rogan like way, no hope,
Padres over. This was probably their last shot. There was
part of me that was kind of hoping they could
make the NLCS. So the Dodgers could put that nail
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in the car.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh wow, you really wanted to grind your toe on
Daniel's eyeball?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I kind of did. Because they got all these free agents.
Dylan Cees, Arise Suarez is going to opt out of
his deal, Jason Adam, who was injured all year, he's
a free agent. I'm assuming Darvish is probably going to
retire the honor of Darvish not wanting to take fifteen
million bucks with half an elbow left in that arm.
Is the window closed, I don't know. It's if it's open,
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it's barely open. So this was kind of a push
all your chips in. We're trading like nine prospects for
O'Hearn and Furman and Mason Miller, and this is our
year and they didn't even get out of the wild
Card because their stars didn't play. They didn't hit the
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Dodger stars pe. We've talked about it extensively. It's not
just one or two, It's been all of them. Sho Hail, Tani, Mookie, Betts, Tascar, Hernandez.
They all have slugging percentages, not ops, slugging percentages over
a thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Felt like they did come out to play right like
the Warriors.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh, I was thinking, you got to keep them separated,
come out and play a lot of people know that's
why they had to have the secondary title, keep them
step rated in parentheses, because nobody knew the ops.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I didn't know either.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
When you look through the Dodgers lineup, they have eight
players over one thousand. I mean, that's how ridiculous they
hit against the Reds, whether it was Mickey Rojas, Tommy Edmund,
Freddie Freeman is hitting over five hundred in addition to
all the other names I mentioned. That is why they
didn't just win the series against the Reds. That is
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why they demolished them. Now, to use the same analogy
that David Veasse used with us in the Suite, there
is a huge step up in weight class for their competition.
This is not heavyweight versus lightweight. This is a full
on nineteen eighty style fifteen round Michael Spinks versus Larry
Holmes showdown. And with Otani at the top of the lineup,
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the Phillies are going with three lefties as their starters.
They want to shut down Otani, they want to shut
down Freddie Freeman. It is a Sanchez, Lozardo Suarez back
to back to back. If you've been watching any Phillies
baseball and you're wondering what does that mean? Are they good? Well?
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Lozardo struck out two hundred and sixteen walked just fifty seven.
He had two starts against the Dodgers this year, went
one to one and through fourteen innings, allowed four earned runs.
Struck out fourteen in those fourteen innings, so pretty good. Suarez,
who on the season struck out one hundred and fifty one.
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Former All Star ranger Suarez, he walked just thirty eight.
He did have just one start against the Dodgers. He
lasted just four and a third, over which he gave
up seven hits and three runs. Now many saying that
Christopher Sanchez would probably be your cy young favorite were
it not for Paul Skeens dominating everyone and anything in
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his way. Sanchez throw two hundred innings two and a
half era twenty two of his starts for quality, struck
out two hundred and twelve, walked just forty four. Pretty impressive.
But in his two games against the Dodgers, twelve and
two thirds gave up thirteen it's eight runs and four Doggers,
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and he is throwing Game one, and as we mentioned yesterday,
if you can get to because no Zach Wheeler that
threw a big wrench into the Phillies plans to kind
of take that next step. They've been to the World
Series and loss. They've been to an NLCS and lost.
Wildly disappointed by the Mets last year. It was supposed
to be Phillies Dodgers in the NLCS. Instead the Mets
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upset him. As Spilly Ryan Spilboorgs told us yesterday, he
thinks it's destiny for this Phillies team. They're way too
good to not have at least one World Series title. Well,
you put their cy young candidate out there, their ace
that's supposed to be pitching Game one, and if needed
game four, you get to him and show hey, Otani
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pitches like he's pitched in the month of September. I
think you feel pretty good. Not not guess up the jet,
but you got Blake Snell in Game two, and you
saw the.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Dodgers have an edge in this series. It's not a
big edge.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
No, which is why I think if you win game one,
it becomes I think it decidedly pushes to the Dodgers
to have Snell versus Lozardo and Yamamoto against Suarez. I
think that this game one is the one where if
they're gonna get this series, they're probably gonna have to
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get this first game. Otani in his first ever playoff start.
I don't think there's any chance he's got any jitters
or anything like that. But of course they just ramped
him up to six innings for the first time his
last time out, so that'd be the one for them
to get set the tone and then feel pretty good
about trying to get one of the next two and
then see if you can win the game if you
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need a game back in Philadelphia. As for the hitters,
p Bryce Harper hit two sixty against the Dodgers this
year five for nineteen, one homer, two doubles, seven strikeouts.
Kyle Schwarber did not play well against the Dodgers, hit
one fifty eight three for nineteen one home runs.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
He is there hitting star. Yeah, Like when Freddie Freeman
came to the Dodgers, he was the hitting star, and
then Otani showed up and he was the hitting star.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Right. It feels like if there was no Schwarber's that
guy in Philly, right.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I think if if Otani's not winning the MVP, Schwarber's
the guy that's probably getting it. So the fact that
they were able to keep him contained also nineteen at bats.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's like having an Aaron Judge and Otani playing against
each other exactly got.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
It and an old friend alert. Trey Turner was just
two for ten with three strikeouts against the Dodgers. Nick
Castillanos two sixty seven, four for fifteen with a homer
flip side that, though Otani Nobueno against the Phillies five
for twenty three a two seventeen average, ten strikeouts, two Doggers,
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just two Ribby's. The rest of the bunch Mookie two
sixty six for twenty three a home or four Ribbies
five strikeouts, Freddy two seventy three three for eleven to
one homer, two strikeouts, missed a few of the games,
uh and Max Munsey two sixty seven to four to
fifteen to one homer. So pretty much everybody kind of
right and step against a good team if they can
put up those numbers, and then Otani can become Otani
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like he has been in nearly everything else save that
one or those whatever six games, seven games against the Phillies,
then uh, looks like they're set up to be pretty good. Uh.
Blake Snell shut him out on the seventeenth of this
month to avoid the sweep yere at Dodger Stadium. Why
are the Phillies throwing three lefties? Because they are twenty
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four and twenty three to Dodgers against left handed pitchers
compared to sixty nine and forty six against righty's. As
you said, p, these two teams are very good, and
many think whoever wins this series is winning the World Series.
That the Dodgers and Phillies outclassed the Brewers, Cubs that
are left in the NL, and any team Blue Jays, Yankees, Tigers,
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and whoever the hell else I'm forgetting about in the
American League. Shame on me. What kind of seamhead am I?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
The Yankees, the Blue Jays, and the Marinias, yes, who are.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
All supposed supposedly a team of destiny, have never won
a World Series, much like the Padres. The Padres will
not win a World Series this year because they're going
home early because Fernando Tatis hit zero eight three and
Manny Machado hit one hundred.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well, I'm glad you're not traveling this weekend because I
think that would be too much for Danielle.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Probably probably if the Dodgers smoke the Phillies, though, he's
gonna it's just gonna compound his depression, I think.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
And nobody wants compound depression most definitely. You want it
very simple with that already, all right, we will be back.
We will have Ben boltch on with the latest the
onslaught on. Martin Jarman does not end La Times with
a big swing today. They're gonna fly a banner tomorrow
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over the Rose Bowl. They'll be able to see it
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whole lot of play by play happening. Dodgers Phillies Game
one of the NLDS is tomorrow, first pitch, three thirty
eight pm. Shohe Otani making his post season pitching debut.
He gets the start against Christopher Sanchez, and then Sunday
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we'll have Chargers versus Commander, So play by play all weekend.
And that's not the only play by play happening in town.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
P No, well, there'll be a game. Uh us he's
on a bye, but UCLA is up and running. At
twelve thirty at the Rose Ball I saw the Penn
State truck, the Big Ring making its way up the
one ten North today. So Penn State coming off a
loss in overtime to Oregon in town, Big Road favorites
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against the UCLA Bruins. We had this guy on a
couple weeks ago when we were at Morongo, and he
does a great job covering UCLA sports specifically what is
a very interesting and and probably very frustrating if you're
a UCLA person football season. It's been a frustrating few
years for UCLA football. Martin Jarmond, the athletic director, is
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under heavy pressure, and there's heavy pressure for the new
chancellor to get rid of him. What's going to happen? Well,
there was a very explosive and interesting article written today
in the La Times by Ben Boltch.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Explosive.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
So we have a lot to discuss with Bolch, the
UCLA beat rider, who does a fabulous job on your
for the La Times, on your Southern California Toyota Dealers
celebrity hotline the La Times. Ben Bolch with us right now.
What's cracking?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
That's too one, gentlemen, Always a pleasure to be on
with you.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We appreciate it first and foremost. You know, the stuff
you had today about Jarman was interesting, just kind of
drawing a picture of ineptitude in the athletic department. Maybe
there's also some supporters as well. As I thought you
did a good job of laying out there. But they
sent out a weird email that had a bunch of
information they shouldn't have sent out with Troy Aikman's address
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on it and stuff. They upset a booster at one
of those Mexican restaurants in Tucson. How do you upset
somebody at one of those restaurants. So we're so fun
and and all these other things have happened. Just kind
of lay it out. How intense I mean, you were
there for the for the fire, Steve Alford banners and
all the different things that happened fire, Chip Kelly banners.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How intense is this compared to that?
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Yeah, that's a great question, and it's it's kind of
reached that critical mass fever pitch stage. I will say
it feels pretty similar to kind of the sense I
got right before de Sean Foster was let go only
a few weeks ago. Right, So, I mean you all
you have to do is hop on social media. Uh,
there's lots of calls for for Martin Johnman to be
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let go. And as I wrote the story, there's there's
an airplane banner scheduled to fly over the tailgating area
in downtown Pasadena tomorrow morning from around ten am to
eleven thirty that we'll have similar messaging to you know,
smiss Martin Jarmont on the banner. So it's it's pretty intense.
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And you know, as I also know, the Chanswer's office
has been flooded with emails about this issue as well,
so they're well aware of it, and it's not getting
the pressure, is not letting up at all.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Ben just in terms of, you know, how much of
this revolves around the next hiring of the football coach
and then the fact that he's made a couple HighRes
or his last hired it certainly did not work out,
does it? Just based on the search party and whoever's
going to be conducting the interviews and calling the shots
on that, how involved would Jarman even be in that
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based on the list of names we've seen kind of
attached to that search.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Well, it's a great question. And I think, you know, honestly,
if they were to make a move with Martin Jarmond,
one of the things that should comfort UCLA fans is that, hey,
they've already got some some really smart people and some
good names, you know, in place to make that selection
that that would you know, still be able to do so.
I mean we're talking about Bob Myers, the former UH
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general manager of the Golden State Warriors, who are Steve Kerr,
Adam Peters UH commander's GM who brought in Dan Quinn
took them to the NFC Championship in year one. Casey
Wasserman one of the biggest names in the sports business. So, uh,
you know, they've got some some heavy hitters who have
a history of hiring coaches, and you know, no matter
how this turns out with the athletic director, you've got
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to have some confidence that these people.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Could make a good hire either way.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It feels like he's under intense scrutiny from those people,
right like they're not gonna he might have had his
wings clipped already, meaning from whom from Ksey Wasser, those
guys are gonna let Jarmin go out and make a hire.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Well, I mean they agreed to be on the uh,
you know, they agreed to be part of this, so
you know, I would imagine that they will have very
very strong voices and they will say, you know, if
they disagree with the directions going, they won't you know,
stand for that, because these are people who have reputations
to uphold as well. So I expect that you know,
they'll they'll do a lot of the heavy lifting here
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and you know, maybe Martin, well we'll just kind of
like say, yeah, I agree with that. That's a that's
a great decision if it comes to that.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I mean, almost thirty years ago, I was playing football
in town, Ben and the knock on UCLA was that
they're great, but they don't pay enough attack. And this
was when Bob Toledo was winning twenty straight games. They're great,
but they don't pay enough attention to their football program.
They don't treat it like the cash cow it is
to care for the other athletic programs they have, which
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are also excellent. It seems like that's still kind of
a prevailing sentiment all these years later, with all the
changes we've had in college football.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well?
Speaker 8 (24:52):
I did up till they hired Hi Kelly and paid him,
are really you know, competitive?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I thought that changed everything too.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Yeah. Yeah, And you know Wasserman Center seventy five million,
paying five million dollars plus a year for food. I mean,
come on, these are big commitments they're making. So, you know,
I think it went down a little bit with the
Deshaun Foster. His salary was clearly below that, But I
don't think that signals any sort of lesser commitment to
football under UCLA. I think the money's there, you know.
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I think they do have to go out and put
together a record package and figure out what their nil
strategy going forward, because that's that's as probably more important
than how much they're going to pay the coaches, how
much they could pay the players, right, So that's the
issue they have to resolve.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
How much of the Jarmin thing is just as simple
as just what a complete disaster this year has been
with de Sean Foster. I know, you know, the article
is fantastic, it's a great read. There's so many just
specific stories that are hard to believe one of them,
let alone the compilation of them. But it really feels
like this is kind of, you know, a result of
no one's going to the Rose Bowl to Sean Foster
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was a mess this year, and you know, because mix
play mixed coaching it. You know, the basketball team up
pretty darn well. They've got some good players coming in.
Is this as simple as football, Ben, I think that's a.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Great point, and I would say it probably is the
reason the spotlight has gotten so hot. Absolutely, But as
you alluded to it, it does go deeper than football.
But I do think the reason we're having this conversation
right now and it's come to the forefront is completely
because of football, both with the failure to to you know,
deal with and dismiss Chip Kelly when it was clear
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he was not the coach for this team, and then
you know, kind of making that quick pivot to Deshaun
Foster when they self imposed a ninety six hour timeline,
which was you know, completely unnecessary and kind of to
me tipping their hands that they'd already pretty much decided
on which way they were going to go. So I
think that was, you know, a big, big mistake, and
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now we're seeing the results.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
As far as the rest of this year goes. I mean,
Penn State coming in here all angry after losing to
Oregon not ideal. It's going to be a long round
trip for them, and maybe UCLA shows some gusto. But
Tim Skipper seems to be a lot easier to cover
for you guys. He just gave a custom jersey to
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Gary Danielson, who's doing the game tomorrow on CBS. How
do you think the rest of the year is going
to play out? And what's it like covering this team
in the aftermath of all that stuff.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Yeah, it's really interesting. I mean, as I wrote after
they lost to Northwestern, my alma mater, that I think
it's fair to say they're on a one to twelve
watch right now, right, because they won They've lost every
game that you kind of penciled in as a you know,
considered almost automatic win over UNLV in New Mexico and Northwestern, right,
and they dropped all three of those, and some of
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them convincingly. So, you know, I'm just looking at the
games they might win as having a little bit of intrigue.
I mean, I think I've got like three, three or
four left where you're like, Okay, if everything goes right
and they can figure out the offense it's now being
run by Jerry Neil, maybe they'll have a chance here.
But certainly Saturday is not one of those games.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Last one for me?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Ben, Does it does it affect the hiring of a
head coach and who might be interested in this job
if in fact they go zero to twelve or one
and eleven, Like, does it make a difference if they
win three games versus zero games?
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I think it does not make a difference. I think
this is a Sonk season, a last season, and it
really will have no bearing on the future and the
resources and commitment that they're going to make to whoever
the next coaches. So I think, you know, there's really
not that much on the line the rest of the
season other than save faith, avoid embarrassment, you know, maybe
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convince some of the promising freshmen to stick around and
and just hire the right coach and rebuild this thing
very quickly.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Do you think Jerry calls plays throughout the rest of
the season or does it get taken by Noel Mazzoni
or something.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
I'm pretty sure it's going to be Jerry. I think
that they, you know, are really excited about that. Actually,
And Noel is a great uh you know, he was
the OC when when Jerry was playing here and came
off the bench to beat Texas. Yes, so I think
he's going to be kind of the elder statesman advisor role.
But uh, you know, a great, great person to have
in your quarter.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Well, thank you, Ben, and great perspective as always. A
fine piece of journalism today about Martin Jarmond in the
LA Times. And enjoy your weekend here in Los Angeles.
We hope you enjoyed your trip back to your alma mater.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
I certainly did, Petros, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
All right, there he goes Ben Bolch of the La Times,
told to wear blue.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
They can use every last blue shirt thing. Yeah, the
blue out, we're blue blue in. They're ben help him out. Huh.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You know a lot of people are you know, using
the you know, spelling it b l e w oh.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
That's a good idea. It's going to be a blue
out little while.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
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Matt's NFL He had to do a Dodger story. So
we got to put the NFL picks elsewhere, and we're
putting them right.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Here, all right, pe, We're gonna go one in each window.
Four picks lost the Thursday night or last night. You
forget or you didn't, Probably I did forget that. Shanahan
just gets in Sean mcvay's head. My god, is he
a mental wreck? Whenever Shanahan and all the forty nine
ers come to town. So lost that one, five and
seven on the season. We're gonna go one in each window.
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London game early one, Browns getting three and a half.
First career start for Dylan Gabriel, first career start will
be in London. First career start will be against Brian
Flores and that aggressive Blitzeing Minnesota defense. You saw what
they did to Jake Browning last week. Flip side though
Cleveland got a hell of a defense, beat the Packers
and they're playing thirty nine year old Carson Wentz behind
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a beat the hell offensive line down three starters, So
who's going to be out there protecting Wentz? Third string center,
third string left guard, back up right tackle. Two excellent coaches,
Kevin O'Connell, Kevin Stefanski, the Kevins. I'll take the under
thirty six. It's a low under, but this thing reeks
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thirteen ten, seventeen fourteen type of game to the early
window ten am Pacific kickoff Raiders at Colts. I want
to take the Colts. Just not crazy about laying six
and a half. It is clear Gino Smith has regressed
a little bit, going to be down as left tackle,
Colton Miller dealing with an ankle. Brock Bowers has not
been the same since his knee injury. But I think
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with the emergence of empty they could put up points
and they could win. Indianapolis is one of the highest
scoring outfits in the NFL right now thirty one per game,
which means all I'd need from the Raiders is seventeen
and we hit the over, so we will go over
forty seven and a half Raiders Colts for the ten am.
By the way, last season, we were all celebrating as
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being one of the great tight end season we'd ever
seen from Brock Bauers.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I had a tight end party that there's the tight
end camp with Kelsey Taylor Swift saying at it. Yeah,
it's very very celebratory toward that position.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Tyler Warren is unpaced to break Rock Bauer's rookie tight
end records pretty good year later, he's he's really it's
crazy to think, but maybe he's even better considering all
the different ways that they're using him. But both incredible,
just wild that what we thought was something we'd never
see again could very well fall the following year Afternoon games.
Of course, I'm going to stay away from Mars. You
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mentioned it. He won twenty five PM America's Game of
the Week on five. Did it last week? Not last week?
Maybe two weeks ago. I did it two weeks ago
with the gigantic line, took the Ravens over the Browns,
laying eleven and a half, and it worked out. This week,
I'm gonna do it again. I'll lay the ten and
a half to the Bengals and take the Lions. I
mentioned it earlier, Jake Browning and the Bengals versus the
Vikings disaster. Lions, after a disappointing first week, found the
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rhythm they are humming. Laying ten and a half as
a road favorite is not smart, but Jamar Chase has
less than fifty receiving yards and two straight. He's kind
of got this squeaky wheel thing going on right now.
Lions running game crushing it. Montgomery's a Cincinnati guy, so
big homecoming for him. Figure at least one touchdown there.
The Bengals defense not good against the run, so I
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will take the Lions lay the ten and a half
as a road favorite, something unthinkable in the NFL, but
that's how bad the Bengals are banged up. And finally
Sunday Night football, I'm gonna take the points. I'll take
the Patriots and the seven and a half. The Bills
had the wild win over the Ravens in Week one,
but since then they have feasted on the Jets, the Dolphins,
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and the Saints. Say their fault, it's not their fault.
You can only play who's on the schedule, right. The Patriots, though,
while the record two and two versus four and zero,
they thumped the Panthers, knocked off the Dolphins, hung in
against the Steelers in what was just a way too
sloppy game for them. A lot of their own mistakes
in week one. I'll chalk up against the Raiders to
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Week one. I think it'll be high scoring. Was tempted
to take the over. Drake may is playing great about
two point fifty passing per game, seven touchdowns to two picks,
his QB rating one ten. He's got two rushing touchdowns,
doing his best Josh Allen impression. His weapons starting to
show up. Hunter Henry three touchdowns on the season, Stefon
Diggs just at his first one hundred yard game, and
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I figure rookie Traveon Henderson set for his big breakout.
The Bills struggle against the run. Are they gonna win?
Probably not, But with a hook seven and a half,
we'll take the Patriots and.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
The points.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Once again, Matt those kicks.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Patriots plus seven and a half, Colts Raiders over forty
seven and a half, Lions minus ten and a half,
and Brown's vikings in London under thirty six and a.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Half, and you blame McVeigh and Shanahan's mental rivalry.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
For Yeah, last night's loss was it was just it
was a dumb pick. It was a really dumb pick.
You don't want to give eight and a half points
to Kyle Shanahan when he's playing Nickveigh. The guy's eight
and two against him, for God's sakes. I don't know
what the hell I was thinking. You're just you know,
the Rams are playing.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Best receiver in the country.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
The Niners came in with a practice squad on offense, backup, backup,
tight end, backup receivers Mac Jones, and I didn't know
that Mac Jones was going to throw for four hundred
and the two touchdowns. Pretty good, take off his shirt
and smoke a cigar in.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The locker room. He was very pleased, a lot to
be happy about. Absolutely, Alabama just beat Georgia.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
I've resurrected my professional career.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Mac Jones is puffing on a cigar after everybody watching
him Al Michael's had a rough night.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Yes, didn't think he was going to survive that game.
Did you see that late fourth year overtime beat up?
I mean his tailbowe pads all sticking out. His pants
are having to look like vic pen in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Did kind of?
Speaker 6 (37:26):
That's a little bit, but true pants are around the ankles.
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Hop story of it.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Well, Pee, your top story begins with this losses yesterday.
Stars have to be stars. Do not ignore history. Look
at the elimination games and why Boston and San Diego.
I'm going to ignore Cleveland are going home Boston narrative.
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You know, I'll be honest, I just don't really know.
I was like, I don't know if is this guy star?
I don't know is that guy that was my problem?
Whereas just kind of looking through the Cubs, the Red Sox,
the Yankees and the Padres Roush, I'm like, way, I
know these guys. H Boston won for eleven effort from
Duran story and Bregman uh uh chyres dies I got again.
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And that's the only reason I know that he's a
star because of our former intern Gabby, who was very
disappointed in his effort against a very disappointed Meanwhile, Yankees
super Rooky Cam Schlittler was as advertised. His final regular
season started, he struck out nine, he allowed to hits
over seven and in this one, my goodness, eight innings,
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twelve strikeouts, zero walks. First time in Major League base
Ball playoff history a rookie has put up those numbers. Ever. Meanwhile,
in the series, Aaron Judge hit three sixty four, Volpi
hit three sixty four, and the Yankees broke the winless
streak since this wild Card format was introduced. Teams winning
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Game one were fifteen and zero going into their final
contest of the evening, and yet they ended up getting out.
They will head to Toronto to take on the Blue Jays.
For the Cubs, Kyle Tucker hit two seventy three, Pete
crow Armstrong hit three hundred. Michael Busch, former Dodger They're
All Star, hit four hundred, and we did find out
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courtesy of Clyle. She sent me the note. Michael Bush
traded for Jackson Ferris and Zayer Hope, so two promising
minor leaguers for the All Star first baseman that was
blocked by Freddie Freeman. Here in Los Angeles. He hit
four hundred with a dogger and Dansby Swanson was out
there making every other short stop in the big leagues
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look like they should quit. Compared to what he was
doing in the field. Why are the Padres going home?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Because Tatisa Machado suck ass? Pure ass. Wow, that is
very harsh. Yes, Fernando Tatis one pure class. You say,
pure ass. He hit zero eight three, zero eighty three
in the wild card round, four strikeouts. Machado had the
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one big homer in a game to win, and everyone
was getting all over the Cubs skipper Craig Council like
why would you pitch to him? And it's like, well,
that was his only hit in the entire series. He
was one for ten. He did not have a hit
up to that point. I guess that's why we pitched
to him. Did he make him pay?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
But Machado, for all of his chirpin and all of
his chest puffin one for ten with three strikeouts. Luisa
Rise who was one.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Least Machado was Graycia.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
You know, after it was all said and done, you know,
he kind of took the blame on himself. He did
kind of like James Franklin, you know, after losing to Oregon,
he was, uh, he handled himself well.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
And most defended.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
But how do you assess the season like this?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
I mean, I mean, what type of question is that, dude,
my guy, how do I assess the season we just lost?
Speaker 5 (06:22):
How do you think I assessed the sea? How do
you think I assess it?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I was asking you, tell me, what's a loss we lost?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
How do you assess it? It's a loss You're lost?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Come on, dude, I mean you could ask better questions
than that.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Let's go, come on, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You know, wait to the last second.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I asked that.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Sure, let me let me try this one, machado. How
much of it do you blame on yourself? One for
ten one for the team was zero for eight with
runners in scoring position. Luisa Rise won the batting title.
And the child's a big guy, very intimidated. I would
imagine if you're a someone like me, a little neatly
necked reporter with the microphone in his face, and he's
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kind of staring you.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Down, going toe to toe with him. Though last year,
remember it was a year ago to the day.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, I was in Boise or something or something.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
Right from the dugout there Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, I don't know if I had the can of
turtle wax or the rag that was waxing his balls.
I can't remember. That's that's how I went toe to
toe with him. Kates here is the nicest guy gets
a bad rough What do you think?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, sounds good to me, Dave.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Uh did we all walk away from that going yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It really isn't? Actually nice guy, it was. It was great,
super nice to us. Put his arm around. Dave had
a big smile on his face, but he had a
bad series. Uh Luis Rayes, like I said, won the
battle like batting title. I think three times two for eleven.
Uh so, yeah, it was a disastrous called strike three
in the top of the ninth with Jackson merrill Avage
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just hit a homer to cut the lead to three
one a runner on first, nobody out. But that ain't
why you lost. That is not why you're going home again.
Zero for eight with runners in scoring position is why
you're going home. So for the team to show no
class and start screaming at the umpires as they're walking
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off the field, and by the way, umpires just keep walking, man,
don't engage as we're watching.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Maybe that was like the uh maybe that was like
the alternate guy that that that we got in love right,
you know what I mean, like the guy who'd never
made it out there, and then the security had to
say that was that was fair?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That was Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I haven't seen so much anger since those waymos got
lit on fire downtown a while back.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
That's what it was like. It was like a flaming weymo. Uh,
they could have got a hit. Maybe you don't need
a ninth inning rally to win a game after doing
nothing in the previous eight and uh, the last time
I checked, there were two on and one out for Croninworth,
who grounded out, and then runners on second and third
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in scoring position with the best hitter in the series
for the Padres, Freddie Furman in the box set up
for a rally and he popped out the center. So
still opportunities there to overcome. But as we have detailed
on the show, mostly courtesy of David Vasse, the Padres
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are far too emotional of a bunch, and things like
that really get into their head. Game over, series over,
season over, and in a Fred Rogan like way, no hope,
Padres over. This was probably their last shot. There was
part of me that was kind of hoping they could
make the NLCS. So the Dodgers could put that nail
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in the car.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Oh wow, you really wanted to grind your toe on
Daniel's eyeball?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I kind of did. Because they got all these free agents.
Dylan Cees, Arise Suarez is going to opt out of
his deal, Jason Adam, who was injured all year, he's
a free agent. I'm assuming Darvish is probably going to
retire the honor of Darvish not wanting to take fifteen
million bucks with half an elbow left in that arm.
Is the window closed, I don't know. It's if it's open,
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it's barely open. So this was kind of a push
all your chips in. We're trading like nine prospects for
O'Hearn and Furman and Mason Miller, and this is our
year and they didn't even get out of the wild
Card because their stars didn't play. They didn't hit the
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Dodger stars pe. We've talked about it extensively. It's not
just one or two, It's been all of them. Sho Hail, Tani, Mookie, Betts, Tascar, Hernandez.
They all have slugging percentages, not ops, slugging percentages over
a thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Felt like they did come out to play right like
the Warriors.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Oh, I was thinking, you got to keep them separated,
come out and play a lot of people know that's
why they had to have the secondary title, keep them
step rated in parentheses, because nobody knew the ops.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
I didn't know either.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
When you look through the Dodgers lineup, they have eight
players over one thousand. I mean, that's how ridiculous they
hit against the Reds, whether it was Mickey Rojas, Tommy Edmund,
Freddie Freeman is hitting over five hundred in addition to
all the other names I mentioned. That is why they
didn't just win the series against the Reds. That is
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why they demolished them. Now, to use the same analogy
that David Veasse used with us in the Suite, there
is a huge step up in weight class for their competition.
This is not heavyweight versus lightweight. This is a full
on nineteen eighty style fifteen round Michael Spinks versus Larry
Holmes showdown. And with Otani at the top of the lineup,
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the Phillies are going with three lefties as their starters.
They want to shut down Otani, they want to shut
down Freddie Freeman. It is a Sanchez, Lozardo Suarez back
to back to back. If you've been watching any Phillies
baseball and you're wondering what does that mean? Are they good? Well?
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Lozardo struck out two hundred and sixteen walked just fifty seven.
He had two starts against the Dodgers this year, went
one to one and through fourteen innings, allowed four earned runs.
Struck out fourteen in those fourteen innings, so pretty good. Suarez,
who on the season struck out one hundred and fifty one.
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Former All Star ranger Suarez, he walked just thirty eight.
He did have just one start against the Dodgers. He
lasted just four and a third, over which he gave
up seven hits and three runs. Now many saying that
Christopher Sanchez would probably be your cy young favorite were
it not for Paul Skeens dominating everyone and anything in
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his way. Sanchez throw two hundred innings two and a
half era twenty two of his starts for quality, struck
out two hundred and twelve, walked just forty four. Pretty impressive.
But in his two games against the Dodgers, twelve and
two thirds gave up thirteen it's eight runs and four Doggers,
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and he is throwing Game one, and as we mentioned yesterday,
if you can get to because no Zach Wheeler that
threw a big wrench into the Phillies plans to kind
of take that next step. They've been to the World
Series and loss. They've been to an NLCS and lost.
Wildly disappointed by the Mets last year. It was supposed
to be Phillies Dodgers in the NLCS. Instead the Mets
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upset him. As Spilly Ryan Spilboorgs told us yesterday, he
thinks it's destiny for this Phillies team. They're way too
good to not have at least one World Series title. Well,
you put their cy young candidate out there, their ace
that's supposed to be pitching Game one, and if needed
game four, you get to him and show hey, Otani
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pitches like he's pitched in the month of September. I
think you feel pretty good. Not not guess up the jet,
but you got Blake Snell in Game two, and you
saw the.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Dodgers have an edge in this series. It's not a
big edge.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
No, which is why I think if you win game one,
it becomes I think it decidedly pushes to the Dodgers
to have Snell versus Lozardo and Yamamoto against Suarez. I
think that this game one is the one where if
they're gonna get this series, they're probably gonna have to
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get this first game. Otani in his first ever playoff start.
I don't think there's any chance he's got any jitters
or anything like that. But of course they just ramped
him up to six innings for the first time his
last time out, so that'd be the one for them
to get set the tone and then feel pretty good
about trying to get one of the next two and
then see if you can win the game if you
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need a game back in Philadelphia. As for the hitters,
p Bryce Harper hit two sixty against the Dodgers this
year five for nineteen, one homer, two doubles, seven strikeouts.
Kyle Schwarber did not play well against the Dodgers, hit
one fifty eight three for nineteen one home runs.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
He is there hitting star. Yeah, Like when Freddie Freeman
came to the Dodgers, he was the hitting star, and
then Otani showed up and he was the hitting star.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Right. It feels like if there was no Schwarber's that
guy in Philly, right.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I think if if Otani's not winning the MVP, Schwarber's
the guy that's probably getting it. So the fact that
they were able to keep him contained also nineteen at bats.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
It's like having an Aaron Judge and Otani playing against
each other exactly got.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
It and an old friend alert. Trey Turner was just
two for ten with three strikeouts against the Dodgers. Nick
Castillanos two sixty seven, four for fifteen with a homer
flip side that, though Otani Nobueno against the Phillies five
for twenty three a two seventeen average, ten strikeouts, two Doggers,
(16:12):
just two Ribby's. The rest of the bunch Mookie two
sixty six for twenty three a home or four Ribbies
five strikeouts, Freddy two seventy three three for eleven to
one homer, two strikeouts, missed a few of the games,
uh and Max Munsey two sixty seven to four to
fifteen to one homer. So pretty much everybody kind of
right and step against a good team if they can
put up those numbers, and then Otani can become Otani
(16:35):
like he has been in nearly everything else save that
one or those whatever six games, seven games against the Phillies,
then uh, looks like they're set up to be pretty good. Uh.
Blake Snell shut him out on the seventeenth of this
month to avoid the sweep yere at Dodger Stadium. Why
are the Phillies throwing three lefties? Because they are twenty
(16:55):
four and twenty three to Dodgers against left handed pitchers
compared to sixty nine and forty six against righty's. As
you said, p, these two teams are very good, and
many think whoever wins this series is winning the World Series.
That the Dodgers and Phillies outclassed the Brewers, Cubs that
are left in the NL, and any team Blue Jays, Yankees, Tigers,
(17:18):
and whoever the hell else I'm forgetting about in the
American League. Shame on me. What kind of seamhead am I?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
The Yankees, the Blue Jays, and the Marinias, yes, who are.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
All supposed supposedly a team of destiny, have never won
a World Series, much like the Padres. The Padres will
not win a World Series this year because they're going
home early because Fernando Tatis hit zero eight three and
Manny Machado hit one hundred.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Well, I'm glad you're not traveling this weekend because I
think that would be too much for Danielle.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Probably probably if the Dodgers smoke the Phillies, though, he's
gonna it's just gonna compound his depression, I think.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
And nobody wants compound depression most definitely. You want it
very simple with that already, all right, we will be back.
We will have Ben boltch on with the latest the
onslaught on. Martin Jarman does not end La Times with
a big swing today. They're gonna fly a banner tomorrow
(18:23):
over the Rose Bowl. They'll be able to see it
from locking you outa high and then right next to
our Saint Francis. We'll be right back with more Petros
and money on M five seventy LA Sports, Ben Boltcher
the La Times.
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whole lot of play by play happening. Dodgers Phillies Game
one of the NLDS is tomorrow, first pitch, three thirty
eight pm. Shohe Otani making his post season pitching debut.
He gets the start against Christopher Sanchez, and then Sunday
(19:18):
we'll have Chargers versus Commander, So play by play all weekend.
And that's not the only play by play happening in town.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
P No, well, there'll be a game. Uh us he's
on a bye, but UCLA is up and running. At
twelve thirty at the Rose Ball I saw the Penn
State truck, the Big Ring making its way up the
one ten North today. So Penn State coming off a
loss in overtime to Oregon in town, Big Road favorites
(19:49):
against the UCLA Bruins. We had this guy on a
couple weeks ago when we were at Morongo, and he
does a great job covering UCLA sports specifically what is
a very interesting and and probably very frustrating if you're
a UCLA person football season. It's been a frustrating few
years for UCLA football. Martin Jarmond, the athletic director, is
(20:10):
under heavy pressure, and there's heavy pressure for the new
chancellor to get rid of him. What's going to happen? Well,
there was a very explosive and interesting article written today
in the La Times by Ben Boltch.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Explosive.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
So we have a lot to discuss with Bolch, the
UCLA beat rider, who does a fabulous job on your
for the La Times, on your Southern California Toyota Dealers
celebrity hotline the La Times. Ben Bolch with us right now.
What's cracking?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Ben?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
That's too one, gentlemen, Always a pleasure to be on
with you.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
We appreciate it first and foremost. You know, the stuff
you had today about Jarman was interesting, just kind of
drawing a picture of ineptitude in the athletic department. Maybe
there's also some supporters as well. As I thought you
did a good job of laying out there. But they
sent out a weird email that had a bunch of
information they shouldn't have sent out with Troy Aikman's address
(21:06):
on it and stuff. They upset a booster at one
of those Mexican restaurants in Tucson. How do you upset
somebody at one of those restaurants. So we're so fun
and and all these other things have happened. Just kind
of lay it out. How intense I mean, you were
there for the for the fire, Steve Alford banners and
all the different things that happened fire, Chip Kelly banners.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
How intense is this compared to that?
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Yeah, that's a great question, and it's it's kind of
reached that critical mass fever pitch stage. I will say
it feels pretty similar to kind of the sense I
got right before de Sean Foster was let go only
a few weeks ago. Right, So, I mean you all
you have to do is hop on social media. Uh,
there's lots of calls for for Martin Johnman to be
(21:50):
let go. And as I wrote the story, there's there's
an airplane banner scheduled to fly over the tailgating area
in downtown Pasadena tomorrow morning from around ten am to
eleven thirty that we'll have similar messaging to you know,
smiss Martin Jarmont on the banner. So it's it's pretty intense.
(22:11):
And you know, as I also know, the Chanswer's office
has been flooded with emails about this issue as well,
so they're well aware of it, and it's not getting
the pressure, is not letting up at all.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Ben just in terms of, you know, how much of
this revolves around the next hiring of the football coach
and then the fact that he's made a couple HighRes
or his last hired it certainly did not work out,
does it? Just based on the search party and whoever's
going to be conducting the interviews and calling the shots
on that, how involved would Jarman even be in that
(22:46):
based on the list of names we've seen kind of
attached to that search.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Well, it's a great question. And I think, you know, honestly,
if they were to make a move with Martin Jarmond,
one of the things that should comfort UCLA fans is that, hey,
they've already got some some really smart people and some
good names, you know, in place to make that selection
that that would you know, still be able to do so.
I mean we're talking about Bob Myers, the former UH
(23:11):
general manager of the Golden State Warriors, who are Steve Kerr,
Adam Peters UH commander's GM who brought in Dan Quinn
took them to the NFC Championship in year one. Casey
Wasserman one of the biggest names in the sports business. So, uh,
you know, they've got some some heavy hitters who have
a history of hiring coaches, and you know, no matter
how this turns out with the athletic director, you've got
(23:33):
to have some confidence that these people.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Could make a good hire either way.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
It feels like he's under intense scrutiny from those people,
right like they're not gonna he might have had his
wings clipped already, meaning from whom from Ksey Wasser, those
guys are gonna let Jarmin go out and make a hire.
Speaker 8 (23:52):
Well, I mean they agreed to be on the uh,
you know, they agreed to be part of this, so
you know, I would imagine that they will have very
very strong voices and they will say, you know, if
they disagree with the directions going, they won't you know,
stand for that, because these are people who have reputations
to uphold as well. So I expect that you know,
they'll they'll do a lot of the heavy lifting here
(24:13):
and you know, maybe Martin, well we'll just kind of
like say, yeah, I agree with that. That's a that's
a great decision if it comes to that.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I mean, almost thirty years ago, I was playing football
in town, Ben and the knock on UCLA was that
they're great, but they don't pay enough attack. And this
was when Bob Toledo was winning twenty straight games. They're great,
but they don't pay enough attention to their football program.
They don't treat it like the cash cow it is
to care for the other athletic programs they have, which
(24:40):
are also excellent. It seems like that's still kind of
a prevailing sentiment all these years later, with all the
changes we've had in college football.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Do you agree with that?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Well?
Speaker 8 (24:52):
I did up till they hired Hi Kelly and paid him,
are really you know, competitive?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
I thought that changed everything too.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Yeah. Yeah, And you know Wasserman Center seventy five million,
paying five million dollars plus a year for food. I mean,
come on, these are big commitments they're making. So, you know,
I think it went down a little bit with the
Deshaun Foster. His salary was clearly below that, But I
don't think that signals any sort of lesser commitment to
football under UCLA. I think the money's there, you know.
(25:19):
I think they do have to go out and put
together a record package and figure out what their nil
strategy going forward, because that's that's as probably more important
than how much they're going to pay the coaches, how
much they could pay the players, right, So that's the
issue they have to resolve.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
How much of the Jarmin thing is just as simple
as just what a complete disaster this year has been
with de Sean Foster. I know, you know, the article
is fantastic, it's a great read. There's so many just
specific stories that are hard to believe one of them,
let alone the compilation of them. But it really feels
like this is kind of, you know, a result of
no one's going to the Rose Bowl to Sean Foster
(25:56):
was a mess this year, and you know, because mix
play mixed coaching it. You know, the basketball team up
pretty darn well. They've got some good players coming in.
Is this as simple as football, Ben, I think that's a.
Speaker 8 (26:07):
Great point, and I would say it probably is the
reason the spotlight has gotten so hot. Absolutely, But as
you alluded to it, it does go deeper than football.
But I do think the reason we're having this conversation
right now and it's come to the forefront is completely
because of football, both with the failure to to you know,
deal with and dismiss Chip Kelly when it was clear
(26:29):
he was not the coach for this team, and then
you know, kind of making that quick pivot to Deshaun
Foster when they self imposed a ninety six hour timeline,
which was you know, completely unnecessary and kind of to
me tipping their hands that they'd already pretty much decided
on which way they were going to go. So I
think that was, you know, a big, big mistake, and
(26:49):
now we're seeing the results.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
As far as the rest of this year goes. I mean,
Penn State coming in here all angry after losing to
Oregon not ideal. It's going to be a long round
trip for them, and maybe UCLA shows some gusto. But
Tim Skipper seems to be a lot easier to cover
for you guys. He just gave a custom jersey to
(27:11):
Gary Danielson, who's doing the game tomorrow on CBS. How
do you think the rest of the year is going
to play out? And what's it like covering this team
in the aftermath of all that stuff.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
Yeah, it's really interesting. I mean, as I wrote after
they lost to Northwestern, my alma mater, that I think
it's fair to say they're on a one to twelve
watch right now, right, because they won They've lost every
game that you kind of penciled in as a you know,
considered almost automatic win over UNLV in New Mexico and Northwestern, right,
and they dropped all three of those, and some of
(27:44):
them convincingly. So, you know, I'm just looking at the
games they might win as having a little bit of intrigue.
I mean, I think I've got like three, three or
four left where you're like, Okay, if everything goes right
and they can figure out the offense it's now being
run by Jerry Neil, maybe they'll have a chance here.
But certainly Saturday is not one of those games.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Last one for me?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Ben, Does it does it affect the hiring of a
head coach and who might be interested in this job
if in fact they go zero to twelve or one
and eleven, Like, does it make a difference if they
win three games versus zero games?
Speaker 8 (28:20):
I think it does not make a difference. I think
this is a Sonk season, a last season, and it
really will have no bearing on the future and the
resources and commitment that they're going to make to whoever
the next coaches. So I think, you know, there's really
not that much on the line the rest of the
season other than save faith, avoid embarrassment, you know, maybe
(28:41):
convince some of the promising freshmen to stick around and
and just hire the right coach and rebuild this thing
very quickly.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Do you think Jerry calls plays throughout the rest of
the season or does it get taken by Noel Mazzoni
or something.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
I'm pretty sure it's going to be Jerry. I think
that they, you know, are really excited about that. Actually,
And Noel is a great uh you know, he was
the OC when when Jerry was playing here and came
off the bench to beat Texas. Yes, so I think
he's going to be kind of the elder statesman advisor role.
But uh, you know, a great, great person to have
in your quarter.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Well, thank you, Ben, and great perspective as always. A
fine piece of journalism today about Martin Jarmond in the
LA Times. And enjoy your weekend here in Los Angeles.
We hope you enjoyed your trip back to your alma mater.
Speaker 8 (29:29):
I certainly did, Petros, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
All right, there he goes Ben Bolch of the La Times,
told to wear blue.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
They can use every last blue shirt thing. Yeah, the
blue out, we're blue blue in. They're ben help him out. Huh.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
You know a lot of people are you know, using
the you know, spelling it b l e w oh.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
That's a good idea. It's going to be a blue
out little while.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
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But right now, yeah, where's dj huh?
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Come on?
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It is time for.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Matt's NFL He had to do a Dodger story. So
we got to put the NFL picks elsewhere, and we're
putting them right.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Here, all right, pe, We're gonna go one in each window.
Four picks lost the Thursday night or last night. You
forget or you didn't, Probably I did forget that. Shanahan
just gets in Sean mcvay's head. My god, is he
a mental wreck? Whenever Shanahan and all the forty nine
ers come to town. So lost that one, five and
seven on the season. We're gonna go one in each window.
(31:53):
London game early one, Browns getting three and a half.
First career start for Dylan Gabriel, first career start will
be in London. First career start will be against Brian
Flores and that aggressive Blitzeing Minnesota defense. You saw what
they did to Jake Browning last week. Flip side though
Cleveland got a hell of a defense, beat the Packers
and they're playing thirty nine year old Carson Wentz behind
(32:16):
a beat the hell offensive line down three starters, So
who's going to be out there protecting Wentz? Third string center,
third string left guard, back up right tackle. Two excellent coaches,
Kevin O'Connell, Kevin Stefanski, the Kevins. I'll take the under
thirty six. It's a low under, but this thing reeks
(32:37):
thirteen ten, seventeen fourteen type of game to the early
window ten am Pacific kickoff Raiders at Colts. I want
to take the Colts. Just not crazy about laying six
and a half. It is clear Gino Smith has regressed
a little bit, going to be down as left tackle,
Colton Miller dealing with an ankle. Brock Bowers has not
been the same since his knee injury. But I think
(32:59):
with the emergence of empty they could put up points
and they could win. Indianapolis is one of the highest
scoring outfits in the NFL right now thirty one per game,
which means all I'd need from the Raiders is seventeen
and we hit the over, so we will go over
forty seven and a half Raiders Colts for the ten am.
By the way, last season, we were all celebrating as
(33:23):
being one of the great tight end season we'd ever
seen from Brock Bauers.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
I had a tight end party that there's the tight
end camp with Kelsey Taylor Swift saying at it. Yeah,
it's very very celebratory toward that position.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Tyler Warren is unpaced to break Rock Bauer's rookie tight
end records pretty good year later, he's he's really it's
crazy to think, but maybe he's even better considering all
the different ways that they're using him. But both incredible,
just wild that what we thought was something we'd never
see again could very well fall the following year Afternoon games.
Of course, I'm going to stay away from Mars. You
(33:56):
mentioned it. He won twenty five PM America's Game of
the Week on five. Did it last week? Not last week?
Maybe two weeks ago. I did it two weeks ago
with the gigantic line, took the Ravens over the Browns,
laying eleven and a half, and it worked out. This week,
I'm gonna do it again. I'll lay the ten and
a half to the Bengals and take the Lions. I
mentioned it earlier, Jake Browning and the Bengals versus the
Vikings disaster. Lions, after a disappointing first week, found the
(34:18):
rhythm they are humming. Laying ten and a half as
a road favorite is not smart, but Jamar Chase has
less than fifty receiving yards and two straight. He's kind
of got this squeaky wheel thing going on right now.
Lions running game crushing it. Montgomery's a Cincinnati guy, so
big homecoming for him. Figure at least one touchdown there.
The Bengals defense not good against the run, so I
(34:39):
will take the Lions lay the ten and a half
as a road favorite, something unthinkable in the NFL, but
that's how bad the Bengals are banged up. And finally
Sunday Night football, I'm gonna take the points. I'll take
the Patriots and the seven and a half. The Bills
had the wild win over the Ravens in Week one,
but since then they have feasted on the Jets, the Dolphins,
(35:02):
and the Saints. Say their fault, it's not their fault.
You can only play who's on the schedule, right. The Patriots, though,
while the record two and two versus four and zero,
they thumped the Panthers, knocked off the Dolphins, hung in
against the Steelers in what was just a way too
sloppy game for them. A lot of their own mistakes
in week one. I'll chalk up against the Raiders to
(35:23):
Week one. I think it'll be high scoring. Was tempted
to take the over. Drake may is playing great about
two point fifty passing per game, seven touchdowns to two picks,
his QB rating one ten. He's got two rushing touchdowns,
doing his best Josh Allen impression. His weapons starting to
show up. Hunter Henry three touchdowns on the season, Stefon
Diggs just at his first one hundred yard game, and
(35:43):
I figure rookie Traveon Henderson set for his big breakout.
The Bills struggle against the run. Are they gonna win?
Probably not, But with a hook seven and a half,
we'll take the Patriots and.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
The points.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Once again, Matt those kicks.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Patriots plus seven and a half, Colts Raiders over forty
seven and a half, Lions minus ten and a half,
and Brown's vikings in London under thirty six and a.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Half, and you blame McVeigh and Shanahan's mental rivalry.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
For Yeah, last night's loss was it was just it
was a dumb pick. It was a really dumb pick.
You don't want to give eight and a half points
to Kyle Shanahan when he's playing Nickveigh. The guy's eight
and two against him, for God's sakes. I don't know
what the hell I was thinking. You're just you know,
the Rams are playing.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Best receiver in the country.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
The Niners came in with a practice squad on offense, backup, backup,
tight end, backup receivers Mac Jones, and I didn't know
that Mac Jones was going to throw for four hundred
and the two touchdowns. Pretty good, take off his shirt
and smoke a cigar in.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The locker room. He was very pleased, a lot to
be happy about. Absolutely, Alabama just beat Georgia.
Speaker 6 (37:09):
I've resurrected my professional career.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
Mac Jones is puffing on a cigar after everybody watching
him Al Michael's had a rough night.
Speaker 7 (37:15):
Yes, didn't think he was going to survive that game.
Did you see that late fourth year overtime beat up?
I mean his tailbowe pads all sticking out. His pants
are having to look like vic pen in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Did kind of?
Speaker 6 (37:26):
That's a little bit, but true pants are around the ankles.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Final our fun fact and quick it's coming up next.
Stay with us on a Frogman Friday.
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